NameAlvin Twitworth “Thane” Hodge
Birth15 Apr 1845, Boggy Depot, Wagoner Co, Indian Territory
Naturalization12 Aug 1899, Coweta, Wagoner Co, Indian Territory
MemoDawes Enrollment Number 2225
Census1 Jun 1900, Twp 19, Creek Nation, Indian Territory
Memoroll#1853, pg 34
Census8 Jan 1904, Oklahoma Territory
Census10 May 1910, Lynn Lane, Tulsa Co, OK
Memoroll#1274, pg 18
Death21 Aug 1919, Coweta, Wagoner Co, OK
Burial23 Aug 1919, Oaklawn Cem, Tulsa, Tulsa Co, OK
Misc. Notes
Listed as Alvin Twitworth Hodge in daughter Adeline’s obituary.
Gravesite details: "Civil War,C.S.A, Indian Territory: Co H. lst Creek Cavalry Rgmt”. Husb. of Mary Jane (Burgess) Hodge.
Dawes Census for the Indian Territory lists him and his family’s recorded enrolled in the Creek Nation in 1890 at Big Springs and there in 1895 as well, and that they were all 1/2 Creek by blood. Based on that they were issued Citizen Certificates 12 Aug 1899. It also lists their parents names and that they were dead.
In the 1900 census, Alvin and his family are all recorded as being 3/4 Indian, with Alvin being Creek and Mary Jane Cherokee.
Listed as 1/2 Creek Indian, age 54 in 1904 5 Tribes census
In the 1910 census, he is listed as born in the Creek Indian Territory, age 68 and his parents born in Tennessee. Wife Mary, age 65 born in the Chreokee Nation, parents born in Georgia and all 7 of her children living.
[Obituary] Coweta Times-Star - 28 Aug 1919, Thur, pg 1
Alvin T. Hodge, Pioneer Citizen, is Dead
Alvin T. Hodge, aged 74, pioneer citizen of this section of Oklahoma, passed away Saturday at his home northwest of Coweta. His sudden death, resulting from acute congestion, came as a shock to members of his family and other people of the community. We reproduce below extracts from an article appearing in the Sunday Tulsa Democrat concerning Mr. Hodge.
"The pioneer citizen of Tulsa is dead. Alvin T. Hodge, who saw a city spring up on land that once bore only his two-room log cabin and the teepees of "Tulsa Town" Creek Indians, died at his home at Coweta on Thursday. He will be buried at Oak Lawn cemetery. Mr. Hodge is rightly known as the pioneer citizen of Tulsa.
He is the first white man to have lived here. Here he was born; here he lived a long and useful life; near here, he died. Years and years ago, when the Creek Indians came west and north from areas they had occupied for generations among the bayous of Mississippi, one hand settled in the sand hills along the banks of what is now the Arkansas river. Locopoke, Tulsa town, was founded. The father of Alvin Hodge was one of the founders.
Hodge was born in a cabin situated on the Arkansas river bank, some distance below where the Midland Valley railroad bridge now crosses. In 1868, after returning from four years spent with the Confederate armies, Alvan Hodge returned to Locopoke and here built his home-a two room cabin.
Hodge owned and farmed a section of land lying east of his home, that section of the city now covered by the exclusive homes of Maple Ridge and the choice residential district east of the Midland Valley tracks. Mr. Hodge was active in all affairs of the Confederate veterans and attended many national reunions. Funeral services will be held at Mowbray's undertaking chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The body will be brought here from Coweta on Sunday morning. Alvin Hodge will be laid to rest in a cemetery that was once a part of his farm.
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Birth14 Aug 1850, Locust Grove, Mayes Co, Indian Territory
Death13 Mar 1935, Mounds, Creek Co, OK
BurialOaklawn Cem, Tulsa, Tulsa Co, OK
Misc. Notes
Gravesite details: Wife of Alvin Thane Hodge. M/o John Hodge. Dau. of John & Jane Burgess.
The 1900 census says 7 of her 11 children were living, and she was born Aug 1850 in Indian Territory.
She got her land allotment in 1909.
In the 1910 census, Mary is recorded as age 65, born in the Cherokee Nation.
She filed for Civil War Widow’s Pension benefits in 1929.
Marriage15 Mar 1865, Coweta, Wagoner Co, Indian Territory